Culture in Quarantine

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BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021

Follow all the drama from the biennial competition across the BBC

Inside Cinema: Cameo Overload

Have we reached cameo overload? Ali Plumb explores how a movie in-joke has become a key part of the franchise toolkit

BBC IPlayer

A walk on the photographic wild side

Chris Packham shares his love of photography and his five top tips for amateur snappers

BBC Arts

Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

Curtain-Up on Coventry

The city's streets are transformed into a giant stage to celebrate becoming UK City of Culture 2021

BBC iPLAYER

Coventry Moves Together

A soundscape of a city-wide orchestra for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021

BBC SOUNDS

Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain

The story of the building, consecrated in 1962 to replace the medieval cathedral destroyed by German bombers in 1940

BBC iPlayer

Pride: BBC Introducing Arts

STONEWALL 2069

What might the next fifty years of queer liberation look like?

BBC iPlayer

Eight eloquent LGBTQ+ stories

Reflections on the LGBTQ+ experience available on BBC Sounds from New Creatives artists

BBC ARTS

ISHTAR

A feast in a fictional English country garden with five guests who are gender non-conforming, trans or non-binary

BBC iPlayer

Between the Covers

Stacey Dooley reveals her favourite book

Stacey joins Robert Webb, Caitlin Moran and Nish Kumar on this week's Between the Covers

Between the Covers

"No book took me further from 1970s Edgware!"

Hugh Dennis reveals his love of A Hundred Years of Solitude to Sara Cox

Between the Covers

"This book is inspirational for anyone going through grief"

Katherine Ryan, David Baddiel, Adjoa Andoh and Phil Davis join Sara Cox to talk about the books that make them cry

BETWEEN THE COVERS

Inside Cinema

Jukebox Musicals

Dewi Evans waxes lyrical about films that breathe new life into songs we know and love

BBC IPlayer

Queer Villains

Caspar Salmon explores the impact of the pointedly camp big screen villain

BBC IPlayer

The Jump Scare

Are jump scares a cheap way to get a response from the audience, or movie-making magic in its purest form?

BBC iPlayer

Performance on the BBC

Lights Up

BBC Arts has partnered with theatres across the country to produce an unprecedented season of plays.

Culture in Quarantine

Dancing Nation Highlights

Select performances and interviews from a celebration of world-class dance with Brenda Emmanus

BBC iPlayer

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom

BBC SOUNDS

Elsewhere in Arts & Culture

Glasgow International

Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary visual art running from 11 to 27 June 2021

Glasgow International

Paradise lost

Michael Armitage's layered depictions of Africa at the Royal Academy

ART UK

Artes Mundi 9

Find out more about the exhibition of international art appearing at three Cardiff venues between 19 May and 5 September

Artes Mundi

New on BBC iPlayer

Great British Photography Challenge

Six talented photographers from across the UK embark on the photographic masterclass of a lifetime with Rankin

BBC IPLAYER

Inside Culture

Mary Beard talks to critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

BBC IPLAYER

Kirsty Wark Meets Bridget Riley

The celebrated artist on her childhood in Cornwall, the impact of war on her art and learning from her own mistakes

BBC iPlayer

New on BBC Sounds

Our Souls So Knit

Caroline Bird is on a mission to uncover the story behind a Victorian poet who was actually two women

BBC SOUNDS

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

BBC SOUNDS

On Form

Andrew McMillan explores why poetic forms are fashionable again with modern writers.

BBC SOUNDS

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